“In our Network business, we continued a significant effort to improve
traffic quality during the quarter. We believe traffic quality is
critical to attracting advertisers, which increases revenue and expands
margin. While the Network benefited from rapid traffic growth over the
past year, the Network traffic quality was impaired by persistent
efforts on the part of sophisticated third parties intent on defrauding
advertisers for their own gain. All advertising companies are faced with
this challenge, as has been widely reported in the news in recent
periods.

“While we are not alone in this challenge, we are intent on leading the
charge to overcome it. In the last two quarters alone, we have
implemented very aggressive traffic quality monitoring and filtering
tools. We believe these tools, together with those of our advertising
partners, combined with continued vigilance will improve traffic quality
and ensure the value of our Network to advertisers. In the short term,
the impact of traffic that was disqualified, due to quality issues, has
resulted in decreased Network traffic and revenue in the second quarter.
Nevertheless, with improved traffic quality tools and the addition of
new sites and partners that meet our high-quality traffic standards, we
expect the Network to return to growth, as we exit 2014.

“Our innovation efforts are advancing with great strides. This quarter
in the mobile segment of our business we achieved a major milestone with
the launch of nQuery™, our new white-label search experience that
opens up the market for mobile carriers and other enterprise partners to
participate in revenue from mobile search. Our initial nQuery
relationships are expected to give Local Corporation potentially
significant market share in the Tier II mobile phone carrier marketplace
and contribute significant incremental revenue later this year and into
2015. Mobile is the fastest growing segment of search, according to BIA/Kelsey,
as mobile local ad revenues are projected to more than triple over the
next five years, reaching $15.7 billion in 2018.

“As we move through the second half of 2014 and into 2015, our new
product releases are expected to drive incremental top-line growth and
improved profitability. We remain excited about the large opportunities
ahead of us in the local search space and reiterate our 2014 guidance.”

Reported $204 revenue per thousand visitors (RKVs), up 8%
sequentially, the second consecutive quarter of improvement.

Reiterated 2014 guidance: Revenue midrange expected to increase 11%
compared to 2013, and Adjusted EBITDA is expected to be between $3
million and $4 million.

* Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) excluding: provision
for income taxes; interest and other income (expense), net;
depreciation; amortization; stock-based compensation charges; gain or
loss on derivatives’ revaluation; net income (loss) from discontinued
operations; accrued lease liability/asset; and severance charges. See
detailed reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP measures in the financial
tables attached to this release.

“Our second quarter O&O revenue grew 14% year-over-year, again exceeding
internal revenue expectations,” said Ken Cragun, Local Corporation CFO.
“This reflects our ability to increase the number of visits by
high-intent local consumers and improve monetization. In the Network, we
focused on improving traffic quality by augmenting our traffic quality
tools and processes to better identify low-quality or invalid traffic
and ending relationships with associated publishing partners. This
resulted in a lower revenue run-rate in the near term, but is expected
to enhance our long-term position. In the second quarter, we are pleased
to report that we grew our cash balance by $3.0 million, reduced our
debt by $700,000, and delivered positive Adjusted EBITDA for the sixth
consecutive quarter. We remain confident in the momentum of our O&O
business and new mobile search initiatives and, accordingly, we confirm
our 2014 guidance.”

Business Highlights

Local Search Growth: Local Corporation continues to implement
improved traffic acquisition and monitoring tools, infrastructure
updates and user interface enhancements to increase search traffic,
which delivered 14% growth for the company’s O&O business. During the
second quarter, overall traffic reached 73 million monthly unique
visitors (“MUV”), up from 72 million in the first quarter of 2014, and
RKV increased to $204 from $189 for the same periods. The company is
also encouraged by recent enhancements to the relevance of local
search results by one of the major search engines. This is expected to
result in a significant increase in organic traffic and ad
conversions, which the company believes will lead to an improvement in
gross margins.

New Mobile Initiatives: Local Corporation continues to be
committed to taking local search across multiple screens where
consumers are spending more time searching for the products and
services they need and want. The company recently launched nQuery™
by Local, which provides a white-labeled, hosted search solution that
powers customized local search experiences and supports the company’s
goal to populate local search across the Internet of everything. The
company recently entered into partnerships with entities that
specialize in monetizing subscriber traffic for mobile operators and
Wi-Fi networks. Through these partnerships, Local Corporation will
power search for a major US mobile carrier, 18 international and
prepaid MVNO’s and 10,000 U.S. hotels currently under contract. nQuery
is already powering millions of user searches per month and is
expected to grow significantly with the onboarding of new partners.

Local Shopping Expansion: The company is in the process of
integrating an engaging consumer shopping discovery experience powered
by Krillion® into its O&O properties. This destination is expected to
grow and further monetize the highly relevant O&O traffic base as well
as increase repeat visitor traffic. We believe the value of the
Krillion technology is that it seamlessly ingests, aggregates and
localizes various types of dynamic data and distributes this rich
content across multiple channels.

Innovation Focus: The company recently established Local Labs,
which is expected to serve as a digital technology hub and start-up
incubator focused on innovating the digital ecosystem. This team will
be spearheading concept creation for several new product categories
and customer use cases. The company is keenly focused on investing in
innovation as a primary vehicle for growth.

Intellectual Property Update: This quarter, the company was
granted its thirteenth patent, which covers an online advertising
monetization and yield optimization method and/or system and also
began the process of establishing a flexible organizational structure
to pursue its Krillion data and IP licensing strategy. In July, the
company’s cascading menu patent trial was stayed pending completion of
an administrative action with the United
States Patent and Trademark Office. The trial is expected to
resume after the completion of such action.

Strengthened Leadership: In June, the board appointed two new
directors. David M. Hughes, CEO of The Search Agency, brings 15 years
of strategic executive leadership experience with specialties in
global digital marketing and managed services and
software-as-a-service platform products. John M. Payne, CEO of
SimpleAir, Inc., has 30 years of experience leading public and private
companies specializing in early stage software and technology
companies, as well as IP licensing strategies.

Fiscal 2014 Financial Guidance:

Revenue for 2014 is expected to be in the range of $103 million
to $107 million, which at the mid-point is an increase of 11% over 2013
revenue.

Adjusted EBITDA** for 2014 is expected to be in the range of $3
million to $4 million, or between $0.13 and $0.17 per diluted share,
assuming diluted weighted average shares of 23.5 million taking into
account the dilutive effect of stock options and warrants. Projected
2014 Adjusted EBITDA Factors:

Interest Expense of $1.7 million

Income Tax Provision of $200,000

Depreciation Expense of $4.0 million

Amortization Expense of $900,000

Stock Compensation Expense of $800,000

Severance Charges of $1.8 million

Warrant and conversion option revaluation expense items are
undeterminable, but may be significant non-cash gains or losses**

** The valuation of the warrant liability and the conversion option
liability is based in large part on the underlying price and volatility
of the company’s common stock during the period. Since the company
cannot predict this, the company cannot project the non-cash gain or
loss in connection with these warrants and the conversion option, and
therefore, cannot reasonably project its GAAP net income (loss).
Therefore, the company cannot provide GAAP guidance, but does report
GAAP results.

Conference Call Information:

Chairman and CEO Fred Thiel and CFO Ken Cragun will host a conference
call today at 5 p.m. ET to discuss the results and outlook. To
participate in the call, please dial-in 10 minutes in advance to
1-877-883-4693 or 1-315-625-6982, passcode #79486261. To listen to the
webcast and download the associated presentation, please visit the
Investor Relations section of the Local Corporation website at: http://ir.local.com.

The replay can be accessed for approximately one week starting at 7:30
p.m. ET the day of the call by dialing 1-800-585-8367 or 1-404-537-3406,
passcode #79486261. A replay of the webcast will be available for
approximately 90 days on the company's website, starting approximately
one hour after the completion of the call.

About Local Corporation

Local Corporation (NASDAQ:LOCM) is a leading local search and technology
company that connects millions of online and mobile consumers with
businesses and products through a variety of innovative digital
advertising solutions. The company’s patented Krillion® data ingestion
platform aggregates localizes and distributes dynamic, national and
regional retail shopping content, from approximately 120,000 store
locations, representing nearly 3 million localized products. For more
information, visit: http://www.localcorporation.com
or http://www.krillion.com.
To download the company’s iOS® 7-compatible Havvit™ shopping app, go to: iTunes®
(http://bit.ly/1d8Y111).

IOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in the U.S. and
other countries and is used under license.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains certain “forward-looking statements” within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Words or expressions such as
'anticipate,' 'believe,' 'estimate,' 'plans,' 'expect,' 'intend,'
‘project,’ ‘forecast,’ ‘potential,’ ‘feel’ and similar expressions and
phrases are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Any
forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of our management as
well as assumptions made by and information currently available to our
management. Actual results could differ materially from those
contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain
factors, including, but not limited to, our advertising partners paying
less revenue per click and revenues to us for our search results, our
ability to purchase advertising from third parties to drive users to our
sites, including at a profit, our ability to adapt our business
following the shifts in our monetization partners, our ability to
monetize the Local.com domain, including at a profit, our ability to
retain a monetization partner for the Local.com domain and other web
properties under our management that allows us to operate profitably,
our ability to develop, market and operate our local-search technologies
and our Krillion local shopping technologies, our ability to maintain
and grow the number of Network partner sites and the aggregate levels of
user traffic from such Network partner sites while also maintaining the
quality level of such traffic, our ability to market the Local.com
domain as a destination for consumers seeking local-search results, our
ability to adapt to policy and technological changes promulgated by our
advertising partners and traffic acquisition partners, our ability to
grow our business by enhancing our local-search services, including
through businesses we acquire, the integration and future performance of
our Krillion business, the possibility that the information and
estimates used to predict anticipated revenues and expenses associated
with the businesses we acquire are not accurate, difficulties executing
integration strategies or achieving planned synergies, the possibility
that integration costs and go-forward costs associated with the
businesses we acquire will be higher than anticipated, the possibility
of impairment of assets associated with the businesses we have acquired,
our ability to successfully expand our sales channels for new and
existing products and services, our ability to increase the number of
businesses that purchase our advertising products, our ability to expand
our advertiser and distribution networks, our ability to integrate and
effectively utilize our acquisitions' technologies, our ability to
develop our products and sales, marketing, finance and administrative
functions and successfully integrate our expanded infrastructure, as
well as our dependence on major advertisers, our ability to successfully
assert our intellectual property rights, competitive factors and pricing
pressures, changes in legal and regulatory requirements, and general
economic conditions. Any forward-looking statements reflect our current
views with respect to future events and are subject to these and other
risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results
of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. All subsequent written and
oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on
our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this paragraph.
Unless otherwise stated, all site traffic and usage statistics are from
third-party service providers engaged by the company.

Our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on
Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and
Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as other
important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or
otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial
condition. The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as
of the date they are made. We undertake no obligation to revise or
update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release includes the non-GAAP financial measure of “Adjusted
EBITDA” which we define as net income (loss) excluding: provision for
income taxes; interest and other income (expense), net; depreciation;
amortization; stock based compensation charges; gain or loss on
derivatives’ revaluation; net income (loss) from discontinued
operations; accrued lease liability/asset; and severance charges.
Adjusted EBITDA, as defined above, is not a measurement under GAAP.
Adjusted EBITDA is reconciled to net income (loss) which we believe is
the most comparable GAAP measure. A reconciliation of net income (loss)
to Adjusted EBITDA is set forth at the end of this press release.

Management believes that Adjusted EBITDA provides useful information to
investors about the company’s performance because it eliminates the
effects of period-to-period changes in income from interest on the
company’s cash, expense from the company’s financing transactions and
the costs associated with income tax expense, capital investments,
stock-based compensation expense, net income (loss) from discontinued
operations, derivatives’ revaluation charges; accrued lease
liability/asset; and severance charges which are not directly
attributable to the underlying performance of the company’s business
operations. Management uses Adjusted EBITDA in evaluating the overall
performance of the company’s business operations.

A limitation of non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA is that it excludes items that
often have a material effect on the company’s net income (loss) and
earnings per common share calculated in accordance with GAAP. Therefore,
management compensates for this limitation by using Adjusted EBITDA in
conjunction with net income (loss) and net income (loss) per share
measures. The company believes that Adjusted EBITDA provides investors
with an additional tool for evaluating the company’s core performance,
which management uses in its own evaluation of overall performance, and
as a base-line for assessing the future earnings potential of the
company. While the GAAP results are more complete, the company prefers
to allow investors to have this supplemental metric since, with
reconciliation to GAAP; it may provide greater insight into the
company’s financial results. The non-GAAP measures should be viewed as a
supplement to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, GAAP net
income (loss) or earnings (loss) per share.

LOCAL CORPORATION

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except par value)

(Unaudited)

June 30,

Dec 31,

2014

2013

ASSETS

Current assets:

Cash

$

6,676

$

5,069

Accounts receivable, net of allowances of $297 and $533, respectively

12,769

17,298

Escrow receivable

-

390

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

567

957

Total current assets

20,012

23,714

Property and equipment, net

6,343

6,073

Goodwill

19,281

19,281

Intangible assets, net

1,989

2,439

Long-term receivable, net of allowances of $3,431 and $3,431,
respectively

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